Introduction: Arduino Spider
This is my 1st upload so it probably isn't the best, I will upload the code I am using and a video showing how it works within the next couple days
Step 1: Parts
I used an arduino UNO rev3, a ping sensor and a spider bot from radio shack. You will need to know how to solder and some programming basics
Step 2:
I soldered the ping sensor to a small board for convenience
Step 3:
I removed the top to the spider and the processor chip inside just leaving the wires to the motors attached. I soldered longer wire onto the wires coming off of the motors There is two motors that control the spider - rotation - leg movement
Step 4:
I zip tied a plastic mount onto the top of the spider for the arduino to sit on
Step 5:
Each motor connects to a pwm and a digital output on the arduino
Step 6:
The ping sensor sits on top of the arduino and plugs into 5v,gnd, and the sig plugs into digital 7
Step 7:
The whole thing runs off of 1 9v battery connected to the arduino

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Arduino Contest
4 Comments
6 years ago on Introduction
It's a hexbug.
7 years ago
Where was the 'spider' sourced?
8 years ago on Introduction
fantastic project! is there any way you could post the coding you used? Im interested in doing something similar but have never used pwm on the arduino
8 years ago on Introduction
NOT A SPIDER, ONLY HAS 6 LEGS!!! cool though